The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-23
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Beecher'> life is being written in haste by
at least dozen ambitious scrlbeS.
\ fire at Lumberton, n c., on Monday,
destroyed l. buildings. Loss 100000.
The Prince and Princess Colonna are TO
visit Papa Mackay in May or June.
The French Chamber Of Deputies bya
vote of 3IS to PAS, has passed the bill sur
taxing cereals.
NIoonlghterS have wrecked the houses
OF ten tenants on Gen. Stewards estate IN
West Glare, Ireland.
DR.. T. G. Ford, Of Louisiana, having
been pardoned by the Governor, has been
released from the parish prison.
Mrs. L. c. Duer and her child were
killed by 1 locomotive While walking on
the track at Gainesville, Fla.
Mr. Parncll reports his health much inl
proved and his appearance is said to con-
firm his report.
Lieutenant. now General, Greely, of the
Signal Service, is lecturing in Washington
on Arctic subjects.
Mr.. Blaine is to go to Europe in May. if
he does not change his mind before that
time.
Miss Cleveland dined with Mrs Beecher
at the latter's home in Brooklyn on Sunday
afternoon.
Cardinal Manning has heartily endorsed
the policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons
towards the Knights of Labor.
The official arrangements for the World S
Exhibition in Paris in 1899, are now com.
plete.
The total of persons killed in the rail
road wreck is now put at 24, and the
wounded at about $50.
VIM. r. Travers continues TO grow
weaker and now sees nobody but his init
mate friends.
General Sheridan is to build summer
home near New Bedford, on the Massachu-
sets coast.
Senator and Mrs Edmunds will no: leave
Washington for Vermont until the middle
Of May.
Senators Sherman and ingalls,, with the
other members of their Washington party
have arrived at Havana.
The New York coopers have renounced
all allegiance to the Knights of Labor, and
have gone back to work at reduced wages.
The melting of snow and ice is causing
overdows of the Missouri river and its
tributaries.
Ex-Alderman O'Neill is said to pass his
leisure time in Sing-Sing in the earnest
study of St. Augustine's confessions.
The health of ex-President James D.
Fish continues to grow worse, and It is
thought that he will be pardoned to avoid
his death in prison.
The British aristocracy is being dill
large attendance at Mrs. James Brown Pot
ter's debut, which occurs on lhe 26th inst.
Lizzie MCGOWAN, aged Is years, Of Chi
copee, Miss, while tempo rarily insane,
took sufficient Paris green to kill 25 persons
and died in Is minutes.
An engine and tender went through the
railroad trestle near Marietta, Ohio, killing
the engineer and the fireman and seriously
scaldins the conductor and brakeman.
The report that there was a GOODNESS be-
tween the President and Secretary Endi-
colt is denied by the press and denounced
by Mr.. Cleveland.
Fannie Rasch, New Orleans widow
who followed the occupation Of rag picker,
was found dead in bed with 400 con-
cealed about her shabbily-furnished room.
The white and-colored women in Kansas
are being organized to vote at the coming
spring election which promises to be an ex-
citing one.
Beyond few Scrimmages in London
derry and elsewhere, st. Patrick's day was
observed in an orderly manner throughout
Ireland.
The New York E;agjneering NescS says
the disaster on Forest Hill Bridge, near
Boston, was due to its defective construc-
ton
The Treasury Department has received
an opinion from the first Controller, to the
effect that Congress failed to appropriate
money for the agricultural stations
The Illinois Legislature has voted down
4 resolution to submit prohibitory amend
meat TO the people at the next general cleo
ton. The vote was 65 yeas, 9S nays.
An Ottawa, Ont, dispatch says that an.
other fast sailing schooner has been added
to the fisheries protection cruiser fleet for
use during the coming summer.
The French Chamber of Deputies. by
vote of 32S against 23S. approved the bill
imposing duty Of five francs per 100
kilos on wheat imports.
The case against the parties charged with
the shooting of Culbreath, in Edsefield,
has been postponed, on the ground of at
seace of defendants witnesses.
the Governor of Tennessee has signed
the bill submitting to the people a prohibi-
ton amendment to the Constitution. The
election will be held next September.
The silk mills in Union Mills, n. Y,
have been obliged to shut down, owing to
the strike in the mills at Paterson. Over
2V0 men and women are out of employ
uent.
Alta meeting Of Congregational minis
tcrS in Chicago statement highly eulogis-
tic of the Rev. II. w. Beecher was adopted
and ordered placed on the records.
The Duchess of Otranto committed sui
eide at Paris Tuesday by blowing her brains
out with revolver She was overwrought
with grief at the recent death Of her hus-
band
Charles Reilly, the famous short stop of
tue Princeton Browns for several seasons
past. has just been secured by the Savan-
nah Southern League Club.
When last heard from, Secretary Bayard
had met the lady only twice to whom he
is said to be engaged. both of those times
having been il public places.
The RritiSh war office anthorities have